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Writing For Yourself Quotes

If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead. Thomas Merton
Cyril Connolly quote: "It is better to write for yourself and have no audience, than..."
It is better to write for yourself and have no audience, than to write for an audience and have no self. Cyril Connolly
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you Bret Easton Ellis
Cyril Connolly quote: "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write..."
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. Maya Rudolph
Gustave Flaubert quote: "You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only..."
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. Gustave Flaubert
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow. Vanessa Carlton
Irwin Shaw quote: "Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal..."
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. Irwin Shaw
Jack Kerouac quote: "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Jack Kerouac
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person. Kurt Vonnegut
I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time. I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next. You could hire someone to write it for you if you can't write it yourself. That doesn't seem to... Neil Young
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the... Ray Bradbury
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead. Ernest Hemingway
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Betty Smith
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. Margaret Mahy

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